Our gorgeous Reception children had a lovely day getting to know Mrs B a little better! In the morning, they thought about which animal they would like the zoo to send them, based on the Dear Zoo story. Children drew a picture and wrote a caption for their favourite animal.
In the afternoon, children loved accessing our provision in a small group, including investigating the progress of our caterpillars. Mrs B loved getting to know you better Reception!
Friday was a big day for our Reception children as they had their first visit to Year 1 with Mrs B, Miss Randle and Mrs Hope. Wow, we were super impressed with all the children and we can’t wait to get to know everyone more with transition visits every Friday morning. Mrs Wells will also be spending time with Reception children as their new teacher by visits in class and on school trips!
What a fantastic (and sunny!) afternoon Reception have had in Forest School! We started looking at different animals and their habitats, and built our own shelters for them, thinking about how we would keep them warm and dry as part of our Animal Safari topic.
We then went on a bug hunt, and found soooo many creepy crawlies! We then looked to see if we could identify what we had found. Super job reception!
We have a new addition in our lovely nature garden and our reception children LOVED testing it out today. Mrs O’Doherty has been itching to get a hammock up and safe to say it was a huge hit! Watch this space for some more new additions!
In maths we have been learning about patterns and the outdoor environment. We created our own pattern inspired by the artist Andy Goldsworthy. We developed our language of shapes, patterns and repetition.
In PE yesterday, reception looked at creep, crawl and wriggle. We linked our movements to different minibeasts using the different equipment! We refined our agility, balance and coordination.
This week Reception have been looking at patterns and 3D shapes. Yesterday we used some resources to create our own repeated patterns. We explained our pattern to support our C&L. Then we had to notice errors in patterns and correct them.
Yesterday Reception continued looking at Animal Safari. Children programmed the Bee-Bots to direct them around the zoo. We thought about positional language linked to our Maths. Then we listened to Flight of the Bumblebee by Rimsky-Korsakov and expressed what we could hear through art. We expressed movement and sound through drawing.
This week reception are recapping the ‘ch’ digraph in phonics. For early work we practised the formation of the letters and applied them to some CVCC words.
Year 2 worked in groups to test the properties of different materials in science. They recorded their observations on a table and used their results to answer a series of questions.
